How are bats beneficial?

While they won’t make your backyard insect free, bats do consume vast amounts of insects such as mosquitoes and crop damaging insects each night. Not only that but many bats that feed on nectar and pollen are important pollinators. Others …

Disease: Rabies

Electron microscope image of rabies virus, Photo by Norden, a Smith-Kline Company, 1985
Electron microscope image of rabies virus. Photo by Norden, a Smith-Kline Company, 1985.

Does Rabies Affect You?

Agent: Virus Vectors: Mammals, especially raccoon, striped skunk, foxes, bats

Route: Animal bite or scratch; wound/eye/nose/mouth; rarely, inhalation

Symptoms: Paralysis, convulsions, coma. Nearly …